Fade Out

by Douglas Woolf

Book Overview

First published in 1959, Fade Out is a stunning, surreal criticism of American life in the materialistic, youth-and money-crazed 1950s. Its hero is Dick Twombley, a 74-year old retired bank clerk who struggles to retain what remains of his dignity in a world that regards old age as an embarrassment. When he is mistakenly accused of kidnapping two little girls he has befriended, Dick's daughter packs him off to a suburban New York...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876859880
• ISBN13: 9780876859889
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Black Sparrow Press
• Length: 273 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"